Do you suffer from pain, stiffness, and discomfort in your major joints like knees and hips? You may have osteoarthritis. In addition, to many non-drug therapies such as losing weight, exercise, and supports, there are some over-the-counter medications that can help. These include topical anti-inflammatories, acetaminophen, and oral anti-inflammatories such ibuprofen or naproxen. If a trail of over-the counter medications is not successful, there are prescription medications that could tried. While each of these options has some risks of side effects or drug interactions, your pharmacist can help you determine what option is best for you.
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Caring for Your Dentures
Dentures need daily care to keep them clean and in their best shape. When cleaning your dentures, be gentle to ensure you don’t break them. Try placing a towel in the sink or filling it with water to protect them from the hard surface. Soak your dentures and then brush them with a soft-bristled brush and a non-abrasive denture cleanser (toothpaste is not recommended). Place your dentures in water or a mild denture-soaking solution overnight, and then rinse them thoroughly in the morning before using them. These steps will help to keep your dentures looking and feeling great!
Natural Product Review
Health First® JOINTS FIRST Double Glucosamine Complex. Did you know that the majority of Canadians over age 55 suffer with some sort of joint pain? Prevention is key, though, so keeping inflammation at bay and cartilage in good shape is the best thing you can do to keep moving well into your golden years! Health First® Joints First can do just that! It offers a complete blend of nutrients, including collagen and two forms of glucosamine that help to maintain healthy cartilage, as well as herbs like boswellia, sarsaparilla, white willow, and devil’s claw to help prevent inflammation and relieve pain associated with osteoarthritis.
Heart to Home Meals
Heart to Home Meals delivers delicious, nutritious meals right to your door. The company’s team of experts has developed a wide-ranging menu to suit many tastes, dietary needs, and lifestyles, including high-protein, low carbohydrates and/or saturated fat, low sodium, high fibre, vegetarian, and no added sugar options. Heart to Home Meals has a useful diet coding system to help you choose meals that are right for you. Meals also come in mini versions (for smaller appetites), hearty versions (for larger appetites), as well as minced or pureed options. It’s as easy as ordering online or by phone!
Raffle
Support our Centre by buying tickets for our Raffle running for starting July 1st and August! Hundreds of dollars’ worth of prizes from GNM Fine Jewelers, Earls Meat Market, Country Meat & Deli, Canadian Tire and Unger Meats. 10 tickets for $10. Stop by the Centre to grab yours for a chance to win!
Book Club: Hack Your Anxiety
How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do. What if anxiety is not a monster to be tamed, but a resource to be tapped? In this revolutionary book, Dr. Alicia Clark recognizes anxiety as the unsung hero in the path to success and happiness. It can become the motivating force that will lead to a better you, and The Anxiety Advantage aims to restore anxiety to its rightful place as a positive resource. Reclaim your anxiety as a powerful energy source, and bring yourself peace, growth and success.
Cooking Class – A Taste of Mexico!
Join our summer student from Mexico, Nadia, as she takes you through how to make authentic Mexican guacamole and chips. The format of this class is dependent on public health restrictions and may be either in person at the Centre or through a video link. For $6 you get access to the class and all the required ingredients. Call 204-320-4600 to sign up.
Painting Class
Join local artist Doug Enns for a Zoom paint class on July 20! This paint class is suitable for all skill levels and supplies are provided. The format of this class is dependent on public health restrictions and may be either in person at the Centre or through Zoom. The cost of this class (including supplies) is $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Participants will be sent a link to the Zoom meeting the day of the class. Call 204-320-4600 to sign up.
Winnipeg’s Friendliest Undertaker ™
“We’re all neighbours and have to help each other.” Since 1985, Richard Rosin has been helping families through difficult days. He founded Richard Rosin Funeral Director Ltd. in 2018 to continue his commitment by providing environmentally sustainable green funerals, cremations, Online and traditional funeral events – and more. Richard also offers Online education events and writes blog posts on various topics on ageing and end-of-life issues, including managing your Digital (internet) Life and continuing your environmental legacy by considering Green Burial. Call Richard anytime for his neighbourly help in making wise choices and easing the emotional burden.
Community Announcement
Archwood understands that some of our members held off on renewing their memberships till we are fully reopened. We understand. We will be keeping you in the loop with our new programming and reopening plans. We do rely on memberships to sustain the club financially especially when we get back to regular programing at the Archwood site. Annual memberships are just $25. For more information, call 204-416-1067 or email [email protected]
On-Line Activities
We continue to reach out to our members with weekly newsletters that provide puzzles, games, trivia, items of interest.
